{"id":788630,"date":"2026-03-03T08:41:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T08:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/788630\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T08:41:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T08:41:20","slug":"florida-footballs-jon-sumrall-commits-to-florida-state-on-future-schedule-sidesteps-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/788630\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida football’s Jon Sumrall commits to Florida State on future schedule, sidesteps Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"

As new Florida football head coach Jon Sumrall is looking to deliver<\/a> a new type of jolt to the program after the Billy Napier era, there’s no denying that they are also looking to challenge the Miami Hurricanes as the top team in the state. With Sumrall leading the Florida football program,<\/a> he would also speak about certain rivalry games, or lack thereof, against the Hurricanes and even the Florida State Seminoles.<\/p>\n

On Monday’s episode of the podcast \u201cTriple Option,\u201d Urban Meyer, the former head coach, would ask Sumrall about the rivalry games against the Seminoles and Hurricanes.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou play Florida State,\u201d Meyer said. \u201cYou throw nine conference games on top of that and top to bottom, SEC, I still believe is the best conference in college football. However, you saw Indiana play Old Dominion, Kennesaw State, and Indiana State. Is Florida State here to stay? And then with the other two, I mean, I know Miami shows up every five years, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked about scheduling those rivalry games<\/a>, Sumrall would speak about Florida State, but didn’t speak about Miami.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Florida State stays forever\u2026I don\u2019t know that it moves regards to how many games we go to. I do think if your ultimate goal is to play in the CFP, it\u2019s smart of you to evaluate what\u2019s worked in the past,\u201d Sumrall said in response.<\/p>\n

Florida football’s Jon Sumrall on the importance of being \u201cbattle-tested\u201d\"FloridaMatt Pendleton-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

While Sumrall was hired to be the next Florida football head coach<\/a>, he previously served with the Tulane Green Wave, as he spoke about the challenges faced there, looking to bring that experience to the Gators.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou want to challenge yourself and be battle tested, but it\u2019s also nice when you can maybe go through a year and find a game or two where your team doesn\u2019t have to play every snap of the game as starters, where that was the biggest challenge I had last year at Tulane,\u201d Sumrall said.<\/p>\n

In his first season, Sumrall looks to make a noticeable impact after Florida went 4-8 last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As new Florida football head coach Jon Sumrall is looking to deliver a new type of jolt to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9751,10867,7,60060,49,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-788630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-florida-football","9":"tag-florida-state-football","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-miami-fl-football","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116164355531533452","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}